There will be videonetcast talks (maybe 2 to 8 hours) about that software (by it's leading developers, or someone else well qualified to describe the existing architecture, features, bugs, and anticipated improvements).

There will be live Q&A from around the world, involving the listeners & the speakers.

Then world wide collaborative interaction, involving Discussing, Designing, Programming, Debuging, and Arting. Generating both incremental & major version improvements.

The goals are:

1 Research improved methods, techniques,...

2 Educate students about know knowledge, techniques, methods, procedures, history

1) WHATITIS

Each week we'll focus on one particular sw package or system. We'll have several hours of talks from the lead persons for the project, covering: 1) The structure of the system, 2) The current system features, 3) Known bugs to be fixed, 4) New features to be added.

People will be able to ask questions to the speaker (originally through IRC) and the speakers will answer through the videocast.

Then people will have an opportunity to collaborate world wide in real time to design & develop new sw, debug, & develop artwork or documentation. - Bring your laptop or PC.

The goals: Learn new things, produce better & more GPL Free SW, and have fun.

Past Events:

Come to the Bay Area Debian Meeting, in person or online, Wed 11/12 6+PM

(031111) Wed 11/12, from the Bay Area Debian meeting, we will try to get ?IRTextC running from the meeting site. We welcome you to join us on location (?SouthSFBay) or from a remote location, over IRC.

IRC clients:

Some Notes from this meeting: IRC clients: bitchX, ?KVirc Xchat and konversation irssi-text kopete which is a KDE IM program with an IRC plugin.

Kvirc 3 is the best irc client for linux. It uses QT and thus blends fairly seamlessly into your kde environment. Forget about xchat. It is crap. Kvirc 2 is in unstable and it is ok, but you really should try to install kvirc 3 as it has a lot of nice features. Homepage is here: http://www.kvirc.net/CVS snapshot debs are here: ftp://ftp.kvirc.de/pub/kvirc/snapshots/debianI have had various problems with those though, so I always compile my own version from cvs sources.